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Dell Reportedly Plans To Give Away VMware ESX Server 3i For Free, World Keeps Turning

March 15, 2008 by Robin Wauters 4 Comments

According to The Inquirer, it appears Dell is considering to stop charging VMware ESX Server 3i licensing fees on its PowerEdge servers to its customers. This was reportedly said by VMWare’s Senior Product Marketing Manager Martin Niemer and comes two weeks after the virtualization vendor announced it would start embedding the 32 MB hypervisor across Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP and IBM servers.

This doesn’t come as a big surprise, as VMware had added to the previous announcement that hardware vendors would be able to choose which premium they would charge to end customers, if any.  Expect the other hardware vendors to follow suit and drop the prices for including the hypervisors significantly (or even zero) if Dell comes through, especially with the sharp-priced Microsoft hypervisor Hyper-V on its way.

But don’t expect this to have a serious impact on the whole VMware reseller channel’s bottom line, as some blogs are proclaiming already.  The real money is in the enterprise offering and upgrades anyway, and the smaller distributors and resellers have other advantages when it comes to SMB offerings besides pricing.

Filed Under: Rumors Tagged With: Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, hardware, HP, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, IBM, microsoft, Microsoft Hyper-V, MS, OEM, servers, virtualisation, virtualization, vmware, VMware ESX, VMware ESX Server 3i

Video: Interview with Mike Neil, Virtual Machine Technologies Product Unit Manager with Microsoft (VMWorld Europe 2008)

February 27, 2008 by Robin Wauters 4 Comments

The interview below is part of our Virtualization Video Series, a recurring theme we want to implement on Virtualization.com featuring interviews with key players from the industry, event reports, etc.

This interview was recorded at VMWorld Europe 2008 in Cannes, France, and features Mike Neil, Virtual Machine Technologies Product Unit Manager with Microsoft.

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Interviewer: Tarry Singh
Video blogger: Charbax

Filed Under: Interviews, People, Videos Tagged With: Connectix, Hyper-V, interview, microsoft, Microsoft Virtualization, Mike Neil, virtual machine, Virtual Machine Technologies Product Unit Manager, Virtual PC, virtualisation, virtualization, vmware, VMWorld, VMWorld 2008, VMWorld Europe, VMWorld Europe 2008

Windows Server 2008 Right On Schedule, But Hypervisor Product Hyper-V Delayed

February 27, 2008 by Robin Wauters 5 Comments

Today, Microsoft will launch its new server software update at the Heroes Happen Here event. But while Windows Server 2008 will contain the beta bits for Hyper-V, the final product will be made available as an add-on “later in 2008”.

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eWeek claims the delay will almost certainly cause enterprises to hold off on Windows Server 2008, backed by statements from analysts.

“We do not expect to see enterprise deployments of Windows Server 2008 of any significance until the final version of Hyper-V is out,” James Staten, principal analyst at Forrester Research.

The long development cycle for this new server product, which was five years in the making, has also allowed Linux to encroach on Microsoft’s base, Staten said, adding that this is unlikely to significantly erode the opportunities for Windows Server 2008.

eWeek goes on to say its release however marks a milestone for Microsoft, as the software includes lots of key technologies and services, many of which have been available to clients in early candidate form for several months.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Forrester Research, Heroes Happen Here, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, James Staten, microsoft, virtualisation, virtualization, Windows Server 2008

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